Hillcrest, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Alvin-Pearland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77511. The Survey maps it on the Manvel quadrangle. 705 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 33 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHillcrest fell from 730 to 705 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 730 | |
| 2020 | 705 | -25 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Manvel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Manvel quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hillcrest between 2004 and 2013, burning about 586 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID GRASS FIRE |
| 3 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | STATE OF TEXAS-HWY 84 & AVE E |
| 18 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CAMP MOHAWK HWY 35 & CR 191 |
| 18 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9041 |
| 24 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 560 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CAMP MOHAWK |
| 20 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7015 CR 865 |
| 21 March 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 56 |
| 8 February 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hillcrest: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flora Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alvin | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Chocolate Bayou | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Chocolate Springs | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Liverpool | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Manvel | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Hastings | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Westwood Village | 10.1 miles | 13 | |
| Ravenwood Estates | 10.1 miles | 13 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Hillcrest | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2252247 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1388586. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.





